Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops website
25 September 2013
CCCCB – Ottawa)… On the third day of its meeting, the Plenary Assembly of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) elected the Most Reverend Paul-André Durocher, Archbishop of Gatineau, as its next President, and the Most Reverend Douglas Crosby, O.M.I., Bishop of Hamilton, as its next Vice President. The incoming Executive will also include two Co-Treasurers: from the French Sector, for a second term, the Most Reverend Lionel Gendron, P.S.S., Bishop of Saint-Jean-Longueuil, , and from the English Sector, for his first term, the Most Reverend Anthony Mancini, Archbishop of Halifax-Yarmouth.
Archbishop Durocher will succeed the Most Reverend Richard Smith, Archbishop of Edmonton, who ends his term as President at the end of the 2013 Plenary Assembly. Born in Windsor, Ontario, the new President was ordained to the priesthood in 1982 for the Diocese of Timmins and named Auxiliary Bishop of Sault Ste. Marie in 1997. In 2002, he was appointed Bishop of Alexandria-Cornwall, and then Archbishop of Gatineau in 2011. He has been CCCB Vice President since 2011.
The newly elected Vice President was born in Marathon, Ontario. After becoming a member of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Bishop Crosby was ordained to the priesthood in 1975. He served as CCCB General Secretary from 1996 to 1997, before being appointed Bishop of the then Diocese of Labrador City-Schefferville in 1998. In 2007, he was named Bishop of the newly established Diocese of Corner Brook and Labrador, and became Bishop of Hamilton in 2010. He has served two terms on the Executive as the CCCB Co-Treasurer from its English Sector, beginning in 2009